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OverviewThe nineteenth century witnessed a flurry of evangelical and missionary activity in Europe and North America. This was an era of renewed piety and intense zeal spanning denominations and countries. One area of Protestant flourishing in this period has received scant attention in Anglophone sources, however: the French Réveil. Born of a rich Huguenot heritage but aimed at recovering the religion of the heart, this awakening gave birth to a dynamic missionary movement—and some of its chief agents were women. In Birthing Revival, Michèle Sigg sheds light on the seminal role French Protestant women played in launching and sustaining this movement of revival and mission. Out of the concerted efforts of these women arose a holistic mission strategy encompassing the home front and the foreign field. Parisian women, led by Émilie Mallet, established schools to provide infants with food, safety, and religious education. Mallet and her friend Albertine de Broglie led the women's auxiliary of the Paris Bible Society to design and carry out a strategy for large-scale Bible distribution and fundraising. In 1825 de Broglie pioneered the women's committee of the Paris Evangelical Mission Society, which used the Bible Society model to promote international missions across their many networks. In meetings, publications, and reports to the annual General Assembly, the women reflected on their calling in the work of mission and fully embraced their identity as ""true missionaries."" The success of women teachers and their presence as wives and mothers in the Lesotho Mission—exemplified by pioneering missionary wife Elizabeth Lyndall Rolland—proved that married couples serving together as models of Christian living were essential in opening the doors to missionary work in Africa. The story, and these women's legacies, does not end in the field, however. Sigg demonstrates how the educational work of the missionary wives and their publications that shared good news of growing faith in Lesotho sparked local revivals in France. When the enthusiasm of the Réveil waned in the metropole and divisions mounted among Protestants, a movement of deaconesses emerged to renew the faith of French Protestants. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Michèle Miller SiggPublisher: Baylor University Press Imprint: Baylor University Press Weight: 0.257kg ISBN: 9781481316545ISBN 10: 1481316540 Pages: 277 Publication Date: 30 August 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Story of Beginnings 1 Keeping the Faith: Persecution and Revival in Huguenot History 2 French Prophets, Moravians, Methodists: Women and Early Mission 3 Biblewomen and Teachers: Educating for Mission in the Oberlin Revival 4 Saving Gavroche: Parisian Women and Infant Schools 5 Mission before the Missionary Movement: Women and Bible Societies 6 A Distinctively Female Network: Launching the Mission Society 7 Divine Calling au féminin: Seeking Identity in Mission 8 Out in the Field: Women Arrive at the Lesotho Mission 9 For Better, for Worse: Marriage, Education, and Renewal in Mission and Metropole 10 Reviving the Réveil: French Reformed Deaconesses Conclusion: A Legacy beyond Mere InfluenceReviewsWith erudition and sensitivity it fills an important gap in the history of mission, evangelicalism and women's studies. --Emma Wild-Wood ""Scottish Journal of Theology"" "With erudition and sensitivity it fills an important gap in the history of mission, evangelicalism and women's studies. --Emma Wild-Wood ""Scottish Journal of Theology""" Author InformationMichèle Miller Sigg is Executive Director of the Dictionary of African Christian Biography (DACB.org) and Editor of the Journal of African Christian Biography (https: //dacb.org/journal/) at the Center for Global Christianity and Mission at Boston University School of Theology. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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